It occurred to me that I would love to run this at as a one shot or tournament game and I made up a few pregen characters for the crawl.

The story begins with the Repairer of Roads, an ancient Dragonewt noble charged with the maintenance of the mystical dragon roads, plucking four Gloranthan adventurers and one early 20th century Scottish magician from the jaws of certain death and sending them, with his apprentice Rep Rep, off to the Kingdom Ignorance on a quest for the Treasure of the Amethyst Dragon.

I' m hoping to arrange a live playtest before sending this off to HiG but I don't think I have much time and finding six insane people willing to try this is probably impossible. Anyone interested in a Skype game in the near future?

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I've just noticed this. I did something with the Owl and the Pussycat four days later. Now that's weird. I suppose it's possible I saw it, forgot it and the seed was planted, but that doesn't seem likely. The only other link I can make - beyond the 'great minds' one, which really doesn't hold up for me - is with nonsense, given nonsense is source we probably all spend a bit of time accessing. Or maybe a combination of unrelated ideas and images just put the idea there, and there are other posts up the last week or two with the same. A funny thing whatever the cause.

Reviews

Blurbs

"Humanspace Empires is a pulp science fiction game set in the space opera "pre-history" of Prof. M.A.R. Barker's classic fantasy world of Tekumel...[with] a rules engine that implements the best aspects of the original fantasy role playing system and Empire of the Petal Throne..."

"Humanspace Empires is the best upcoming Science Fantasy project on the net. Forget Stars Without a Number, embrace your Sub-atomic Disintegrator Rifle and go shoot some motherfucking demon in the outer space!!"

"If you have run—and loved—an older edition of D&D than you will be completely comfortable running this system ... closer in spirit to the simple, pre-TSR OD&D variant Empire of the Petal Throne than the published one."

"A better one for the OSR: playing What If… with the original games. Humanspace Empires is what if with MAR Barker’s Empire of the Petal Throne, earlier in the timeline of that game and focused on the space opera aspects of the setting."

"This setting is like a combo of star wars, star trek, & dune on acid mixed with influences of old fashioned pulp in a blender with the setting on high mix! Got that! Its that good & this is only the playtest version!"